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Comment Re:US employs 80,000 prisoners for labor (Score 2) 313

by mobilebuddha on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @11:34PM (#36247454) Attached to: China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming

dude.. have you been to OUR prisons? I'm sorry.. I don't particularly wanna talk about other countries prisons and their legal/judicial system when we have such a F-ed system here. To be frank, I'm almost certain the Chinese legal system is very similar to ours.. more $ -> less chance to be jailed. Of course there's that thin line of "opposing the state/disrupt the peace etc".. but then again.. our government can detain, imprison you, me or anyone w/o cause by branding us enemy combatant of the state..

so really.. what's the difference?

PS. Sure some may say.. "but here.. we got free speech!" Yeah, have you tried to overthrow the US government with your speech? Try it. I'm not saying US is = to China at the moment.. but it's close...

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 313

by mobilebuddha on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @11:25PM (#36247422) Attached to: China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming

1 take away though: it's not the Chinese government that has a policy that stated: all prisoners must do physical labor during day and gold farm at night. I'm sorry, but the summary made it seem that way. Horrible title if you ask me.

That's like saying if an American prison guard raped a prisoner, the title would be "USA Raped a Prisoner". Misleading.. right?

Mythic GM Talks Warhammer Launch, Banning Gold Sellers 251

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @06:20PM from the ban-early-and-often dept.

Gamasutra has an interview with Mark Jacobs, GM and co-founder of Mythic, about the recent launch of Warhammer Online. He talks about handling the heavy demands on the servers, and how the launch is going better than the opening of Dark Age of Camelot (during which "somebody parked a truck on our internet"). Jacobs also blogged about the glee with which he and his team have been banning gold spammers: "We don't wait and let them stay in the game and ban them en-masse, my guys ban their useless, time-consuming butts right away. We have a strike team whose sole job it is to get these guys off our servers as quickly as possible. This weekend, we unveiled a new wrinkle in the fight against them, the public ban message. Players on our Phoenix Throne server have been treated to special messages when a gold seller/spammer is banned. I've given them a wide leash to come up with creative messages to tell the entire community who has been banned and we keep it within the Warhammer universe."

T-Mobile May Offer Free Gmail Data Access On G1 Phone 71

Posted by timothy on Monday September 22, 2008 @05:57PM from the if-the-trial-balloon-floats-up-the-flag-pole dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AndroidAuthority.com is reporting that T-Mobile is considering putting free ad-supported Gmail access on its T-Mobile G1 smartphone — no data plan required. The G1 launches in New York tomorrow and is the first device to hit the market that uses the Linux-based Android OS that is backed by Google."

eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US 412

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @05:08PM from the shooting-for-their-own-bailout dept.

Sir_Kurt writes "In eBay's latest FAQ, they explain that sellers (for the good of the buyers) will no longer be allowed to accept checks or money orders as payment. They can take electronic payments only. So, will Google Checkout, Checkout by Amazon or Amazon Flexible Payment be allowed? No, says eBay: 'Google's and Amazon's products and services compete with eBay on a number of levels, so we are not going to allow them on eBay.' Options are limited to PayPal, ProPay, direct credit payments to the seller, and 'payment upon pickup.' But remember, this is for our own good!" eBay ran into trouble earlier this year for trying to restrict payment options.

Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard 603

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 05, 2007 @06:33PM from the first-do-no-harm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server."

New Startup Hopes to Slay the Botnet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 05, 2007 @06:25PM from the saint-nemean-and-the-botnet dept.

eldavojohn writes "How do you identify Botnet traffic on your network? Well, the problem with current commercial technologies is that they generate too many false positives. But a new startup name Nemean Networks hopes to solve all that by building signatures of traffic at many different levels of the network stack. 'Finding the proper sensitivity threshold for NIDS sensors has always been a problem for network and security administrators. Lower the threshold and some attacks get through the signature screening; raise it too high and false positives flourish. Nemean attempts to find the proper balance by gathering traffic sent to a honeynet to build signatures based on weighted data. The numerical weights are entirely subjective and based on the creators' expertise. The data is then clustered and fed through an algorithm to determine threat levels and develop signatures.'"

Comment Re:The world's easiest Linux distro? (Score 1) 201

by mobilebuddha on Friday March 30, 2007 @04:35PM (#18549627) Attached to: Ulteo, The New 'World's Easiest Linux'

yup.. linux is definitely ready for primetime. -_-

"The Gentoo install really isn't that bad." - can you tell me what's worse?

for those of you that preach how easy to use ubuntu is.. please help this n00b out on installing a wireless usb adapter into 6.10. i've spent almost 20 hours going through every fucking site/how-to that i can find with no luck.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39641 7

Napster Going Back to Free Downloads 260

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @08:25PM from the download-like-its-1999 dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on Napster's latest move to allow the download of free music. This time the service will be supported by online ads." From the article: "With Napster's new free service, 'we'll be able to help millions of people get out of the world of 30-second clips and of having to buy individual songs,' Gorog says. 'I don't think there's anything better we could do to turn people onto the pleasures of unlimited, legal access to music.'"

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